Birds & Bees, Pam Weber

 Stumpcraft, 284 pieces. 4 small puzzles together, pretty easy to distinguish, some nice color-line-ish whimsies. 3/5

Lac La Hache Wildflowers, Lori Anne McKague

 Stumpcraft, 200 pieces. The irregular edge gives both charm and difficulty. 3/5

Prismatic Peaks, Ruolin Shi

 Stumpcraft, 305 pieces. I liked how various areas of the image had different cutting styles; it made things more interesting. 3/5

sea serpent

oval pieces for the sky

Stumpcraft minis

Cute and some alternate solutions, though I only put one together. 3/5

Marsh, Meadow, Mountain, Catherine Robertson 61 pieces

look at how the cut goes around the bird's beak at the bottom left!

This is It, Cecile Albi 62 pieces

Comin' Round the Mountain, Julie deBoer 73 pieces

Emerald Lake, Ruolin Shi 62 pieces

Feline Tesselation

 Stumpcraft, 603 pieces. This was a difficult assembly because of the size and distribution of colors--things got somewhat easier as larger sections became intelligible. I like tesselation a lot; the actual pieces weren't tesselated, though there was some color line cutting on the huge multipiece cat figure, as well as individual piece designs that, e.g., isolated eyes from their surrounding colors. 3/5

can you see the kitty? Hint: snake tail.

kitty! Upside down.

Urban Treehouse, Amy Shackleton

 Stumpcraft, 464 pieces. Just lovely colors here, and they mix slowly enough that the puzzle is nicely challenging--green leaves go away bit by bit, forcing you to hunt for smaller and smaller patches. Stumpcraft also continues a practice I like a lot--pieces that look like they should be part of larger whimsies but aren't. I saw half a maple leaf in there even! 3/5

closeup on one half with houses, though it looks like the Upside Down (thanks, Blogger)

the other half with its sphere

Morning, Steve R. Coffey

 Stumpcraft, 595 pieces. A difficult image with lots of color line cutting/interlocks, a Stumpcraft standard by this point. I could live with a slightly looser fit but this had a bunch of surprises. 4/5

birds on a wire

birds led by flying pig

horse and cart (hard to see)

cow and milker

Card Sharks/Card Game at the Beach, Alex Ross

 Par/Stumpcraft, 540 pieces. Collaboration! This was a good idea, because Stumpcraft's technical expertise melds well with the Par piece design, with a tight fit and classic Par whimsies. I particularly liked the large multipiece crabs corresponding to the two central figures of the image, though I did wonder ... shouldn't they have been sharks?  4/5

Carnival, C.W. Jefferys

 Stumpcraft, 440 pieces. Really complex multipiece architectural whimsies here, best seen on the backside. 3/5

snowball fight and victim

dancing/throwing couple

the palace